textctrl and kill focus

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hello,
I have a textctrl with a wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER style. I would like the OnEnter function to be called not only when the user press enter but also when the textctrl looses focus (e.g.: the user has clicked in another textctrl). How can I achieve this?

I’ve tried this but it doesn’t work (and it seems to freeze the GUI somehow):

def OnKillFocus(self, evt):
    self.log.WriteText('OnKillFocus\n')
    kType = wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN.typeId
    ke=wx.KeyEvent(kType)
    ke.SetUnicodeKey(wx.WXK_RETURN)
    ke.SetEventObject( self.tc1 )
    ke.SetId( self.tc1.GetId() )           
    self.tc1.EmulateKeyPress(ke)
    evt.Skip()

To play around I’ve tried using this method with textctrl demo (enabling t1.Bind(wx.EVT_KILL_FOCUS, self.OnKillFocus), adding wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER to t1 and replacing wx.WXK_RETURN with wx.WXK_SPACE to see something but nothing happens and I cannot select the text in self.tc1 anymore after t1 has lost focus

any suggestion?

thanks, Marco

2

you could just call the TE_PROCESS_ENTER method directly from your OnKillFocus method. If you’re using event.GetKeyCode() in the TE_PROCESS_ENTER handler, then you need to define a ‘fake’ GetKeyCode function in OnKillFocus, something like:

def OnKillFocus(self, evt):

def _GetKeyCode():

    return wx.WXK_RETURN

fakeEvent = ''

fakeEvent.GetKeyCode = _GetKeyCode

self.YourProcessEnterMethod(fakeEvent)
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On Monday, September 8, 2014 9:13:17 AM UTC-7, Marco Prosperi wrote:

hello,
I have a textctrl with a wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER style. I would like the OnEnter function to be called not only when the user press enter but also when the textctrl looses focus (e.g.: the user has clicked in another textctrl). How can I achieve this?

I’ve tried this but it doesn’t work (and it seems to freeze the GUI somehow):

def OnKillFocus(self, evt):
    self.log.WriteText('OnKillFocus\n')
    kType = wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN.typeId
    ke=wx.KeyEvent(kType)
    ke.SetUnicodeKey(wx.WXK_RETURN)
    ke.SetEventObject( self.tc1 )
    ke.SetId( self.tc1.GetId() )           
    self.tc1.EmulateKeyPress(ke)
    evt.Skip()

To play around I’ve tried using this method with textctrl demo (enabling t1.Bind(wx.EVT_KILL_FOCUS, self.OnKillFocus), adding wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER to t1 and replacing wx.WXK_RETURN with wx.WXK_SPACE to see something but nothing happens and I cannot select the text in self.tc1 anymore after t1 has lost focus

any suggestion?

thanks, Marco

3

thank you, it’s ok now

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On Monday, September 8, 2014 6:47:22 PM UTC+2, Nathan McCorkle wrote:

you could just call the TE_PROCESS_ENTER method directly from your OnKillFocus method. If you’re using event.GetKeyCode() in the TE_PROCESS_ENTER handler, then you need to define a ‘fake’ GetKeyCode function in OnKillFocus, something like:

def OnKillFocus(self, evt):

def _GetKeyCode():

    return wx.WXK_RETURN

fakeEvent = ''

fakeEvent.GetKeyCode = _GetKeyCode

self.YourProcessEnterMethod(fakeEvent)

On Monday, September 8, 2014 9:13:17 AM UTC-7, Marco Prosperi wrote:

hello,
I have a textctrl with a wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER style. I would like the OnEnter function to be called not only when the user press enter but also when the textctrl looses focus (e.g.: the user has clicked in another textctrl). How can I achieve this?

I’ve tried this but it doesn’t work (and it seems to freeze the GUI somehow):

def OnKillFocus(self, evt):
    self.log.WriteText('OnKillFocus\n')
    kType = wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN.typeId
    ke=wx.KeyEvent(kType)
    ke.SetUnicodeKey(wx.WXK_RETURN)
    ke.SetEventObject( self.tc1 )
    ke.SetId( self.tc1.GetId() )           
    self.tc1.EmulateKeyPress(ke)
    evt.Skip()

To play around I’ve tried using this method with textctrl demo (enabling t1.Bind(wx.EVT_KILL_FOCUS, self.OnKillFocus), adding wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER to t1 and replacing wx.WXK_RETURN with wx.WXK_SPACE to see something but nothing happens and I cannot select the text in self.tc1 anymore after t1 has lost focus

any suggestion?

thanks, Marco